Contents
1. Introduction................................................................................................ 1
Methodology........................................................................................... 2
2. Contextualising citizenship and statelessness in Cambodia............ 3
3. The legal frameworks and their implementation in practice............ 5
3.1. International legal frameworks.................................................... 5
3.2. National legal frameworks governing citizenship................... 7
3.2.1 The 1994 Immigration Law.................................................. 8
3.2.2 The 2018 Law on Nationality............................................... 8
3.3. Civil status and civil registration............................................... 10
4. The profile of known stateless and at-risk populations................... 13
4.1. Long-term residents of Vietnamese origin............................... 13
4.2. Khmer Krom................................................................................... 19
4.3. Refugees & forced migrants........................................................ 21
4.4. Summary......................................................................................... 22
5. The impact of statelessness.................................................................... 23
5.1. Access to education....................................................................... 23
5.2. Poverty and other socio-economic impacts.............................. 25
5.3. Land, relocations and cross-border migration......................... 26
6. Reducing and preventing statelessness in Cambodia...................... 28
Annex.............................................................................................................. 31
List of Resources...................................................................................................................41